ONE OF THE BEST CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY 



which we discussed in another connection, recalled, our list is nearly 

 exhausted. Not 15% of the churches have any other sort of social 

 activity. Of course churches vary, but in general their social life is at 

 rather a low ebb. 



(f) The Community's Service to the Church 



The aggregate annual budget for all Protestant churches is $88,519. 

 Thirty -five and three- tenths cents of each dollar of the church's money 

 is for the minister's salary. The total amount expended in salaries per 

 year is $31,247, and the average per minister is $842, the maximum being 

 $1,500 and the minimum $250. Each church expends an average of 

 $381 on its minister (for 25 churches in two denominations with 15 

 ministers the average is much higher; these two denominations pay an 

 average salary of $1,050: each church having as its average expenditure 

 $625). Very few of the ministers have any source of income other than 

 their salaries. Twenty-nine are furnished with parsonages. 



Twenty-four cents of each dollar is contributed toward the various 

 benevolences of the church, practically all of it going to the estabhshed 

 Boards of the different denominations. Only two churches have any 

 system of local benevolences. Three and three-tenths cents is the cost of 

 maintaining the Sunday-schools, while the remaining 37.4 cents is re- 



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